Pacquiao filed his certificate of candidacy for the Philippine presidential race on Sept. He was elected to the Philippine Senate in 2016. In May 2010, he ran successfully in a different district.
Pacquiao’s political career began in 2007, with an unsuccessful campaign for a seat in the House of Representatives of the Phillipines, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Pacquiao is the only boxer in history to have won world championships in four different decades, and after he defeated Keith Thurman in 2019, at the age of 40, he was the oldest welterweight world champion, ESPN reported. See: Top 10 Most Expensive Shoes Ever Madeįind: 11 Social Security Mistakes That Can Cost You a Fortune The revenue from the 20 million people who have bought pay-per-views for his 25 participating events amounts to about $1.3 billion. His most famous fight was against Floyd Mayweather in 2015, where he earned $130 million for the fight itself and bonus earnings from pay per view. I'm not thinking negative, I'm always thinking positive.Over his career, Pacquiao has taken home $500 million and change from fights and endorsement deals, Celebrity Net Worth reported. "I decided to continue my boxing career because I think I can still fight. Sometimes you lose and you have to accept it. "It's part of boxing, sometimes you lose sometimes you win. "I learned a lot," Pacquiao said of his loss to Marquez.
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Saturday's fight with Rios was Pacquiao's first since he was knocked out for just the third time in his career by Juan Manuel Marquez in December 2012, only his fifth loss in 61 professional fights. "After that I have to help give them a fresh start in their lives." "Right now we've sent them food, food is the most important thing," said Pacquiao, who is an elected official in the Philippine House of Representatives, serving Sarangani's Lone District. Pacquiao said he was attempting to help his compatriots by sending aid to those affected by the typhoon. One newspaper, the Manila Bulletin News tweeted: "When all else fails, Pacman is there to lift everyone up," referring to Pacquiao's nickname.Īnother Philippines news group, the Inquirer tweeted: made #YolandaPH survivors forget misery, then back to reality."īoxing's first and only eight division world champion left his training camp in Genereal Santos City earlier this week to head to Macau for the bout. Watching their national hero fight his way to victory gave the storm-weary nation an opportunity to cheer and think of something different staff, aid workers and typhoon survivors watched the fight together. In an air base in Pasay, south of the Philippines, Filipino troopers, U.S. "You don't feel the sadness that happens here," said Jacoba Mado, a typhoon survivor in Tacloban told Reuters news agency, about the brief respite from Haiyan's devastation. In Tacloban, one of the hardest struck cities by the deadly typhoon, thousands gathered to watch the Pacquiao-Rios fight in a public park, climbing up trees, cars and buildings to catch a glimpse of the match, chanting, "Manny, Manny, Manny" as Pacquiao pummeled his rival.
I sent my people there to help them, what I did is focus on my training and pray to God." I want to visit them personally but I can't because I'm in training.
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